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Eighteen Inches by Lauren Alaina
Eighteen Inches
Standard Tuning
Capo on the 2nd fret
Chords:
Cadd9: x32033
G: 320033 or 320003
D: xx0232
Em7: x22033
Bm7: x23042 ( if you prefer you can replace Bm7 by Bm: x24432 )
Em: x22000
Intro: Cadd9 G D x4
Cadd9 G D Bm7
It's about fifteen hundred miles to California
Cadd9 G D
They'll get there Friday if they leave tonight
Cadd9 G D Em7
She sneaks out at three thirty in the morning
Cadd9 G D G
Leaves a note so she won't see her daddy cry
Cadd9 G D x2
Cadd9 G D Bm7
He cuts the engine when he coasts in the driveway
Cadd9 G D
She slides in and gives him one kiss for the road
Cadd9 G D Em7
No friends and no family, no job out there waiting
Cadd9 G D G
The whole town will call them crazy but they gotta go
Cadd9 G D Em7
'Cause when you're young and in love, yeah
Cadd9 G D
You might do some things that don't seem all that smart
Cadd9 G D Em7 Cadd9 G
'Cause there ain't no greater distance than the eighteen inches from your
D G
Head to your heart
Cadd9 G D x2
Cadd9 G D Bm7
They can barely make rent on a rundown apartment
Cadd9 G D
She's waiting tables and he's a valet
Cadd9 G D Em7
They're behind on the bills and the car's barely running
Cadd9 G D G
But he buys a ring with the tips that he's saved
Cadd9 G D Em7
'Cause when you're young and in love, yeah
Cadd9 G D
You might do some things that don't seem all that smart
Cadd9 G D Em7 Cadd9 G
'Cause there ain't no greater distance than the eighteen inches from your
D G
Head to your heart
Cadd9 G D
Em D Cadd9 D Cadd9
Last thing they need is another mouth to feed, but they won't call
Em D Cadd9 D Cadd9
Just kids themselves but that's all to change in nine more months
Cadd9 G D Em7
She wakes him up at three thirty in the morning
Cadd9 G D
Ready or not their new life's gonna start
Cadd9 G D Bm7
Seven pounds and eighteen inches
Cadd9 G D G
The doctor lays that new baby's head right on her heart
Cadd9 G D
Cadd9 G D Em7
'Cause when you're young and in love, yeah
Cadd9 G D (Dsus4)
You might do some things that don't seem all that smart
Cadd9 G D Em7
But thank God for those eighteen inches
Cadd9 G D G
The distance it is from your head to your heart
Cadd9 G D x4
End on Cadd9
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